Hi all,
I just noticed that (as WCAG 2.0 did) we need to pull some information
out of the Conformance Claim section into a Conformance Requirements
section (since Conformance Claims are not required).
It's primarily just an organizational change (plus I added a few lines
in the conformance section with links to the applicability notes):
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*Conformance Requirements*
In order for an authoring tool to conform to ATAG 2.0, all of the
following conformance requirements must be satisfied:
1. Conformance Levels
Authoring tools may conform "fully" or "partially" to ATAG 2.0. In
either case, the level of conformance depends on the level of the
success criteria that have been satisfied.
"Full" ATAG 2.0 Conformance: This type of conformance is intended to be
used when developers have considered the accessibility of the authoring
tools from both the perspective of authors (Part A: Make the authoring
tool user interface accessible) and the perspective of end users of web
content produced by the authoring tools (Part B: Support the production
of accessible content):
(a) Full ATAG 2.0 Conformance at Level A
The authoring tool satisfies all of the Level A success criteria.
(b) Full ATAG 2.0 Conformance at Level AA
The authoring tool satisfies all of the Level A and Level AA success
criteria.
(c) Full ATAG 2.0 Conformance at Level AAA
The authoring tool satisfies all of the success criteria.
And the Applicability Notes for *Part A* and *Part B* have been applied.
"Partial" ATAG 2.0 Conformance: Authoring Tool User Interface: This type
of conformance is intended to be used when developers have initially
focused on the accessibility of the authoring tool to authors (Part A:
Make the authoring tool user interface accessible):
(a) Partial ATAG 2.0 Conformance Level A: Authoring Tool User Interface
The authoring tool satisfies all of the Level A success criteria in Part
A. Nothing is implied about Part B.
(b) Partial ATAG 2.0 Conformance Level AA: Authoring Tool User Interface
The authoring tool satisfies all of the Level A and Level AA success
criteria in Part A. Nothing is implied about Part B.
(c) Partial ATAG 2.0 Conformance Level AAA: Authoring Tool User Interface
The authoring tool satisfies all of the success criteria in Part A.
Nothing is implied about Part B.
And the Applicability Notes for *Part A* have been applied.
"Partial" ATAG 2.0 Conformance: Content Production: This type of
conformance is intended to be used when developers have initially
focused on the accessibility of the web content produced by the
authoring tool to end users (Part B: Support the production of
accessible content):
(a)Partial ATAG 2.0 Conformance Level A: Content Production
The authoring tool satisfies all of the Level A success criteria in Part
B. Nothing is implied about Part A.
(b)Partial ATAG 2.0 Conformance Level AA: Content Production
The authoring tool satisfies all of the Level A and Level AA success
criteria in Part B. Nothing is implied about Part A.
(c)Partial ATAG 2.0 Conformance Level AAA: Content Production
The authoring tool satisfies all of the success criteria in Part B.
Nothing is implied about Part A.
And the Applicability Notes for *Part B* have been applied.
Note: The Working Group remains committed to the guiding principle that:
"Everyone should have the ability to create and access web content".
Therefore, it is recommended that "Partial" Conformance be used only as
a step towards "Full" Conformance.
2. "Included" and "Excluded" Technologies:
Included web content technologies are those that the authoring tool
conforms to ATAG 2.0 while producing. Excluded web content technologies
are any other technologies that the authoring tool is capable of
producing, but that the authoring tool does not conform to ATAG 2.0
while producing.
- Note 1: Web content technologies may be a combination of constituent
web content technologies. For example, an image technology (e.g., PNG)
might be listed together with a markup technology (e.g., HTML) since web
content in the markup technology is used to make web content in the
image technology accessible (e.g., a PNG graph is made accessible using
an HTML table).
- Note 2: The included technologies will always include any web content
technologies that are selected by the authoring tool for either
automatic content generation or as the default technology for
author-generated content.
- Note 3: The included technologies may include other web content
technologies that authors can produce using the authoring tool,
including interim formats that are not intended for publishing, but this
is not required.
*Conformance Claims (Optional)*
If a conformance claim is made, then the conformance claim must meet the
following conditions and include the following information (authoring
tools can conform to ATAG 2.0 without making a claim):
Conditions on Conformance Claims:
1. At least one version of the conformance claim must be published on
the web as a document meeting level "A" of WCAG 2.0. A suggested
metadata description for this document is "ATAG 2.0 Conformance Claim".
2. Whenever the claimed conformance level is published (e.g., product
information web site), the URI for the on-line published version of the
conformance claim must be included.
3. The existence of a conformance claim does not imply that the W3C has
reviewed the claim or assured its validity.
4. Claimants may be anyone (e.g., authoring tool developers,
journalists, other third parties).
5. Claimants are solely responsible for the accuracy of their claims
(including claims that include products for which they are not
responsible) and keeping claims up to date.
6. Claimants are encouraged to claim conformance to the most recent
version of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Recommendation.
Required Components of an ATAG 2.0 Conformance Claim:
1. Claimant name and affiliation.
2. Date of the claim.
3. Guidelines title, version and URI
4. Conformance level satisfied: (Level A, AA or AAA)
5. Authoring tool information: The name of the authoring tool and
sufficient additional information to specify the version (e.g., vendor
name, version number (or version range), required patches or updates,
human language of the user interface or documentation).
- Note: If the authoring tool is a collection of software components
(e.g., a markup editor, an image editor, and a validation tool), then
information must be provided separately for each component, although the
conformance claim will treat them as a whole. As stated above, the
Claimant has sole responsibility for the conformance claim, not the
developer of any of the software components.
6. Included Technologies: A list of the web content technologies
(including version numbers) produced by the authoring tool that the
Claimant is including in the conformance claim.
-For each web content technology, provide information on how the web
content technology might be used to create accessible web content (e.g.,
provide links to technology-specific techniques). At minimum, the web
content technology must be capable of providing conforming alternate
versions.
7. Excluded Technologies: A list of any web content technologies
produced by the authoring tool that the Claimant is excluding from the
conformance claim.
8. Declarations: For each success criterion:
* A declaration of whether or not the success criterion has been
satisfied; or
* A declaration that the success criterion is not applicable and a
rationale for why not.
9. Platform(s): The platform(s) upon which the authoring tool was
evaluated:
* For user agent platform(s) (used to evaluate web-based authoring
tool user interfaces): provide the name and version information of the
user agent(s).
* For platforms that are not user agents (used to evaluate
non-web-based authoring tool user interfaces): provide the name and
version information of the platform(s) (e.g., operating system, etc.)
and the name and version of the platform accessibility architecture(s)
employed.
Optional Components of an ATAG 2.0 Conformance Claim:
1. A description of the authoring tool that identifies the types of
editing views that it includes.
2. A description of how the ATAG 2.0 success criteria were met where
this may not be obvious.
*"Progress Towards Conformance" Statement*
Developers of authoring tools that do not yet conform fully to a
particular ATAG 2.0 conformance level are encouraged to publish a
statement on progress towards conformance. This statement would be the
same as a conformance claim except that this statement would specify an
ATAG 2.0 conformance level that is being progressed towards, rather than
one already satisfied, and report the progress on success criteria not
yet met. The author of a "Progress Towards Conformance" Statement is
solely responsible for the accuracy of their statement. Developers are
encouraged to provide expected timelines for meeting outstanding success
criteria within the Statement.
*Disclaimer*
Neither W3C, WAI, nor AUWG take any responsibility for any aspect or
result of any ATAG 2.0 conformance claim that has not been published
under the authority of the W3C, WAI, or AUWG.
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(Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc.
jan.richards@utoronto.ca | 416-946-7060
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
Faculty of Information | University of Toronto